Plane Tales

RAF Form 414, Vol. 19


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Telling the tale of my flying career, I left you at the end of my F/A18 conversion course as we reformed the No 77 Royal Australian Air Force Squadron with their brand new Hornets. So far our one and only aircraft A21-5 was being shared around and everyone wanted a piece of it, either to fly or learn how to fix it.  The squadron execs were pretty busy dealing with the job of getting the new squadron personnel squared away so the rest of us got more than our share of flying.  There wasn’t much we could do with a single jet but I was happy just to play with a multi million dollar toy and get used to my new home.

 

The M61A Vulcan Cannon

 

The ‘Pig’ Australian F111

 

My route around Australia

 

Mt Isa

 

Arriving at Darwin

 

Uluru through the HUD

 

 

 

 

Pine Gap

 

Alice Springs

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Peter Gronemann, General Dynamics, Fhrx, and Google Maps.

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